The Satanic Verses

Type

Book

Authors

Rushdie, Salman

ISBN 10

0670825379

ISBN 13

9780670825370

Tags

True Crime, Satire, Contemporary, Literary, Magical Realism, East Indians, England, England--London, Survival, Good and evil, English fiction, India, Families

Abstract

A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur--Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined.

Description

When a Jumbo jet blows apart above the English Channel, Gabreel and Saladin miraculously survive and are washed up on a beach. However, it appears that curious changes have come over them and that they have been chosen as protagonists in the eternal wrestling match between God and the Devil.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Didactic fiction
Allegories
Uncorrected proofs (Printing)
Allegorical fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Rushdie, Salman.
Satanic verses.
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1989, ©1988
(OCoLC)577376030
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 0670825379 9780670825370 9780812976717 0812976711 0312270828 9780312270827 0670817570 9780670817573
OCLC Number: 18558869
Awards: Whitbread Award, 1988.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1988, shortlist.
Description: 546 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Angel Gibreel --
Mahound --
Ellowen Deeowen --
Ayesha --
City Visible but Unseen --
Return to Jahilia --
Angel Azraeel --
Parting of the Arabian Sea --
Wonderful Lamp.
Responsibility: Salman Rushdie.

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